LCPS Deputy Chief Breanne Lapointe, Paramedic Bryan Pollock, Paramedic Gord Cobus, Paramedic Steve Allen, LCPS Chief Travis Mellema and Honourary Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer (seated).
Three Lanark County Paramedics received a 30-year bar for their Governor General’s Exemplary Service Medal in recognition of their career accomplishments.
Steve Allen, Bryan Pollock and Gord Cobus were honoured at a special ceremony at Queen’s Park.
The awards were presented by Honourary Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer.
Awarded since 1994, The Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal recognizes professionals who have performed their pre-hospital emergency medical services duties in an exemplary manner.
It is not a long service medal and is awarded only when truly deserved.
Lanark County Paramedic Service (LCPS) Chief Travis Mellema notes that there are currently more than 11,000 active primary, advanced care, and critical care paramedics providing emergency medical service in Ontario – and there have of course been many, many thousands of paramedics who served before them. “Of these many men and women, only 956 Ontario paramedics have received this award recognizing 30 years of exemplary service,” he says. “Steve, Bryan and Gord are now included in this distinguished cohort.”
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